After climbing Waucoba earlier in the day (why isn't there a Waucoba page here???), I drove up to 5200' on the 4x4 road into Union Wash and camped. Up at 4:30 a.m., and on the "trail" by six. I made Inyo first, and then Keynot. Instead of bypassing the "obstacles" on the ridge to Keynot, I went over them. By the time I got back to my car my feet where really complaining from the more than 6000' of descending (and three days and four peaks of climbing). What a great trip.

8.5 hour dayhike of Inyo and Keynot with Pat. The views to the snow-covered Sierras were incredible and I could have stared at them all day. We found very dry conditions in the Inyos with only a few very small patches of snow. The scree ski back down to Union Wash was epic!

Mojavebobcat (Jordan) and I completed this route, getting an alpine start (ha!) at about 11:30am from the 4wd TH parking at ~5,400'. We both found this route to be absolutely brutal. The scree slog up to the saddle between Inyo and Keynot alternates between tough and miserable, though it makes for a rather rapid descent! We'd hoped to make it over to Keynot, but with a near noontime start, this was not in the cards. No real big deal anyway, as it was pretty hazy on top of Inyo and we'd prefer to see the view from Keynot on a clearer day than we had. Next time, we'll go up the French Spring trail to Forgotten Pass for Keynot; neither of us cares to make the steep, hot, and dry ascent up Union Wash again, pretty as it was. A true DPS classic with quite an impressive summit perch.

Started at 6am from the 2WD parking on a day when a spring storm hit the Sierra. Got pounded by a couple of heavy snow showers and strong wind above 9000ft but the day remained mostly sunny. Lots of unconsolidated snow made for slow going along the ridge. Passed on Keynot because of the sketchy conditions. The scree descent is spectacular. A very enjoyable outing. 8.5h car to car.

A tedious hike due to all the different terrain awagher and I had to cover: the wash pebbles, all the scree, and to top it off the knee-deep snow in the last 400 vertical feet to Inyo. We started at 6:15am from my 2WD parked car at 4,400 feet. We're making pretty good time until we hit the sugary knee-deep snow in the flat sections above the Inyo/Keynot saddle. Took over an hour to plow through 400 vertical feet of unconsolidated, sugary snow. I got to Inyo's summit at 1:14pm. Great views of the Sierra, though. Left the summit a few minutes before 2:00pm and were back at the car by 5:20pm (approx 11 hrs roundtrip). I second what awagher said: don't plan to hike this peak again!

Hiked up with Snow Nymph and others. I also did Keynot which made for a very long day. Came down the endless scree above Union Wash in the dark by GPS. Got off track at one point and got stuck above a cliff above the wash near the waterfall. Because I had circled back a couple of times I couldn't figure out which track to follow on my GPS. Eventually I got back on the right one and got out. Despite the heavy snow this year, we encountered very little all the way to the summit.